Desires are your master! – for example, are drug addicts not people with degrees, families, often made money ? – but the desire literally convinces the person – which is why, only when their desire changes – hitting rock-bottom, and they! want to change, do they – So know beyond a shadow of a doubt you have many masters – each master is called a desire – and the only way you can rid yourself of their tyrannical obsessive and compulsive illogical power is by reducing your ego – (for the ego is the mother which gives birth to all desires – for example, a person who feels not entitled will never desire – this we see clearly in depressed people who suffering from guilt (shame) lack all desires) The way to crush your ego is think about how you would judge someone who acted how you acted (that is the truth, for it is objective versus subjective, for you desire to judge yourself favorably)